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Contrary to knocking him out, it seems to have spurred him to actively proclaim his lack of knowledge.jerryleecooper responds:"Linux looks very interesting, even if some of the screen colours and menu options appear to be a little out of the ordinary.But you are missing a vital point, a point which takes some experience and depth of knowledge in the field of computers. You see, when a computer boots up, it needs to load various drivers and then load various services. This happens long before the operating system and other applications are available.Linux is a marvellous operating system in its own right, and even comes in several different flavours. However, as good as these flavours are, they first need Microsoft Windows to load the services prior to use.In Linux, the open office might be the default for editing your wordfiles, and you might prefer ubuntu brown over the grassy knoll of the windows desktop, but mark my words young man - without the windows drivers sitting below the visible surface, allowing the linus to talk to the hardware, it is without worth.And so, by choosing your linux as an alternative to windows on the desktop, you still need a windows licence to run this operating system through the windows drivers to talk to the hardware. Linux is only a code, it cannot perform the low level function.My point being, young man, that unless you intend to pirate and steal the Windows drivers and services, how is using the linux going to save money ? Well ? It seems that no linux fan can ever provide a straight answer to that question !May as well just stay legal, run the Windows drivers, and run Office on the desktop instead of the linus."http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12355-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=31199&messageID=579066&start=-9537It's not so much his ignorance as it is his condescension that gets to me though...Mitch Wiedemann wrote:I'm not usually one to poke fun at people who are ignorant of "linux", but I found this little gem that some dude named " jerryleecooper" left in the talkback section of a ZDNet article (a shill piece, not worth reading). This person is demonstrating black-belt levels of stupidity rarely witnessed in the wild."Click and Clack" the "Car Guys" have an apropos term for this state of mental prowess. They call it "Un-encumbered by the thought process."http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12355-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=31199&messageID=579806Quote jerryleecooper's post:http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12355-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=31199&messageID=579806You are kidding arent you ? Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ? That sounds preposterous to me. If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this. Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft. Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible. I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.As you might imagine, the post created an explosion of responses, hopefully powerful enough to knock "jerryleecooper" of the Intarweb completely.Here's my favorite one:For the Love of God! />I think you need to re-examine your assumptions. / For the love of God Jerry! For all our sakes - Open the window when you paint the trailer! Are you trolling or seriously this stupid? I think I've actually gotten stupider having read this. It's a separate OS you twit. Have a little sense of embarassment and go study before you posts. I'm embarassed FOR you.
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